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Power outage and the file server
Well…if there is one thing I hate currently is the power outages. This morning, at around 6am, there was a power outage in my area and it lasted for a couple of hours.
After I came back home from work I powered on the file server, currently running ArchLinux, and found out that it’s not booting cleanly as it appears that the file system of the root hard drive has gotten corrupted something which is not fun at all.
This file server has two optical units but neither of them are connected so I can’t use them at this moment. Right now I have two options and them being to either attempt to fix the issue by booting from an USB thumb drive, which I’ll have to make, and attempting to resolve the issue with the file system or reinstall the box. Since the first option would involve for me to basically move all the data out of my TruCrypt encrypted thumb drive and then format it to make the server boot from it I’m going to go with the second option and reinstall the box.
This gives me a chance of testing the FreeNAS distro on that machine. I’ve been reading the userguide and I see that it’s based off of FreeBSD and that it’s highly recommended that the hard drives be formated using the UFS file system which means that I must backup my data first. Now we are not talking about 200MB of data I have nearly 400GB of data stored on that server and I don’t have a hard drive big enough to store that amount of data which means that I’ll have to wait till Sunday to go to the computer store and get a big 500GB hard drive…so ok this is being used as an excuse to get a bigger hard drive as well…hopefully the computer store opens on Sunday and I don’t have to wait till Monday to get that HD and more than opening on Sunday I hope they have a 500GB HD.
Since I basically I’m going to try all of this I might as well create a backup solution at this time so I’ll be looking into buying the big HD with a SATA to USB adaptor and using that as my backup solution
As of right now I’ll be reading that user guide and updating this tomorrow.
-LM